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[Chris Johns]

On 15/9/21 4:49 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 7:02 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org
> <mailto:joel at rtems.org>> wrote:
>     On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 6:54 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org
>     <mailto:chrisj at rtems.org>> wrote:
>     > On 13/9/21 11:20 pm, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>     > > Hi
>     > >
>     > > If building a bset tar file, does it matter if the installation prefix
>     > > is writable?
>     > >
>     > > ../source-builder/sb-set-builder --bset-tar-file --log=l-i386.txt
>     > > --prefix=/rtems/tools 5/rtems-i386
>     > > RTEMS Source Builder - Set Builder, 5 (c7870f6e6199)
>     > > error: prefix is not writable: /rtems/tools
>     > >
>     > > It does if you are planning to immediately install but if building for
>     > > later installation, I don't think it matters.
>     > >
>     > > Thoughts?
>     >
>     > What happens if you add --no-install?
> 
>     It skips the test.
> 
> And doesn't install anything.

Excellent.

>     > If this does help the question moves to if making a bset is packaging
>     around an
>     > install or is it the only output option?
> 
>     With a bset-tar, I don't think it did an install anyway. But it's been
>     a long day. I can
>     check again tomorrow if you want me to.
> 
> Builds and installs tools unless you specify no install.
> 
> Tar files is an additive behavior.

OK and thanks

> I am off today but will try to review the help and user docs to make sure this
> is clear.
> 
> Any thoughts on the tools tarballs not having the architecture name in it? If
> you build multiple architectures or just want to maintain tool tarballs for
> multiple architectures, you have to manually rename them.

Could you please remind me about the naming and then what you would like?

Thanks
Chris